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ymmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to Ant: shapely. -- Shape"less*ness, n. The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. Pope.

Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless. Kirwan.

Shapelessness. [Obs.] Swift.

Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless. Leigh Hunt.

Deformed; misshapen; shapeless; horrid. [Obs.] Sight so deform what heart of rock could long Dry-eyed behold Milton.

To disorder; to make shapeless. [Obs.] Shak.

Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape. -- Form"less*ly, adv. -- Form"less*ness, n.

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed. Cotton.

Unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless. [Obs.] Spenser. Informed stars. See under Unformed.

Want of regular form; shapelessness. [Obs.]

Of irregular form; shapeless. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

o lick into shape, to give proper form to; -- from a notion that the bear's cubs are born shapeless and subsequently formed by licking. Hudibras. -- To lick the spittle of, to fawn upon. South. -- To lick up, to take all of by licking; to devour; to consume entirely. Shak. Num. xxii. 4.

A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore. " A lump of cheese." Piers Plowman. " This lump of clay." Shak.

A shapeless piece; a fragment. [Obs.]

Not formed; not arranged into regular shape, order, or relations; shapeless; amorphous.

Not shaped; shapeless; misshapen; deformed; ugly.

He who writes himself by his own inscription is like an ill painter, who, by writing on a shapeless picture which he hath drawn, is fain to tell passengers what shape it is, which else no man could imagine. Milton. To write to, to communicate by a written document to. -- Written laws, laws deriving their force from ex…